ZIN Victor - With pen and charcoal (cycle of 3 volumes).

Author: ZIN Wiktor

Title: With pen and charcoal (cycle of 3 volumes)

• Place of publication: Warsaw
• Year of publication: 1970-1974
• Publisher: Arkady
• Number of pages: 117, [3]; 152, [4]; 128, [4].
• Illustrations, maps: illustrations in the text
• Size: 23.5 cm
• Binding: hard cloth with wrapper
• Condition: minor rubbing of wrappers

Description:

Edition 1 Illustrated by the author.

Volume I: Beauty unseen - A book about the beauty of our Polish landscape.

Volume II: Mighty Beauty - A book about the monumental architecture of India and ancient Egypt.

Volume III: Beauty Lost - A book about the beauty of the architecture of ancient times, about what is forever gone. Wiktor Zin, in a storytelling style that breathes romanticism, described the underground of Krakow's market square, told about wells slumbering in the shade of linden trees, cryptic chapels, fireplaces that were the heart of old cottages and decorations of palaces and mansions; sketched a picture of the old Jewish town and breathed life into the ruins of the fortress in Chęciny.

Wiktor Zin (1925 - 2007) - Polish architect, professor at the Cracow University of Technology, general conservator of monuments (1977-1981), president of the Society of Lovers of the History and Monuments of Cracow; popularizer of knowledge about the history of Polish art, columnist, author of the television program "With pen and charcoal."